Commander Tyler Campbell, National Lead for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacy Consultants, and Commander Jessica Murrer, a Central Pharmacy Services Pharmacist, introduce fundamental principles of antimicrobial stewardship in the correctional setting. Join these outstanding clinical pharmacists as they outline targeted antimicrobial interventions that improve patient outcomes, potentially reduce costs, and ultimately protect our antimicrobial arsenal from the development of resistance.
This webinar is part of the National Institute of Corrections Clinical Pearls series. The series explores how to integrate clinical pharmacists into primary care. Session participants will learn how to identify best practices for carceral team medicine and clinical pearls in disease states affecting adults in custody.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
During this 60-minute webinar, participants will:
- Identify antimicrobial stewardship interventions and targets that have a positive effect on improving antimicrobial usage in the correctional setting.
- Formulate strategies to use various healthcare disciplines for antimicrobial stewardship activities that encourage a collaborative, team approach.
- Discuss challenges to antimicrobial stewardship efforts in the correctional environment and explore solutions to reduce their effects.
Series Take Aways:
During this webinar series, participants will:
- Define the continuum of opportunities for pharmacist integration in clinical practice.
- Analyze different correctional systems to determine where pharmacists can be included to develop more efficient operations within correctional facilities, reducing costs, improving decision-making processes, enhancing safety, and optimizing resource allocation.
- Evaluate the current strategies of disease management within the carceral setting and analyze novel approaches to improve patient care, decrease costs, and optimize resource allocation.
- Envision how implementing novel strategies for the management of complex disease processes can enhance the operation of a correctional institution through technology and a paradigm change, optimizing screening and treatment practices.
- Formulate strategies to use various healthcare disciplines that encourage a collaborative, team approach.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Any employee of a state, federal, local, or tribal correctional jurisdiction with an interest in correctional healthcare.
You can register for the series or a single event.
Follow this link to register in NIC’s WebEx Event Center Webinar series name.
You can sign up for the entire series or individual episodes.
Content Contact
CAPT Chad Garrett, Health Program Manager, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections
cagarrett@bop.gov
Webinar Technical Contact
Scott Richards, Correctional Program Specialist, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections
s1richards@bop.gov
You’ll need a hands-free telephone, headset or earbuds, and an internet-enabled computer. For optimum learning, be in a quiet place, free from distractions/interruptions, sight-and-sound separated from others, where you can concentrate on what is happening during the webinar. Connect to webinar audio bridge via a hands-free telephone or your computer, using earbuds/headset connected to your phone/cell phone, so your hands are free to interact with your keyboard.
While tablets and smartphones are also compatible with WebEx Webinar Center, many of the features are limited, and most devices require that the Cisco WebEx app is installed. Regardless of which device you plan to use, test its compatibility here. This is a quick test, and we strongly encourage you to do this before the webinar. Please have your agency/local IT whitelist NIC’s Webex URL http://nicmeetings.webex.com to allow full connectivity.
NIC strongly recommends consulting with your agency/local IT, as you may encounter pop-up blocking and/or firewall issues that block the NIC Webex webinar URL on your agency device/computer.
Click https://nicic.gov/webinar-vilt-readiness for further information on NIC’s live webinars, including (cost = free!), how to obtain training credit from your agency, and much more!
Educator Bios
Commander Jessica Murrer
Commander Murrer joined the Federal Bureau of Prisons Central Office and the Central Processing Pharmacy team in May of 2019. She currently serves as the Chief Pharmacist for USP Atwater, FCI Herlong, and FPC Pensacola. She is a virtual staff pharmacist for an additional twenty facilities. Prior to that, she was Chief Pharmacist at FDC SeaTac and a Clinical Pharmacist at FCC Coleman, where she started as a SRCOSTEP. She has established pharmacist-physician collaborative practice clinics in Anticoagulation, Diabetes Management, and Cardiovascular Care. She currently serves as a FBOP Antibiotic Stewardship Clinical Consultant Pharmacist, FBOP Pharmacy Advisory Group Coordinator, and is involved in multiple other collateral duties. CDR Murrer is enthusiastic about improving patient care and providing high quality drug information to patients and providers.
Commander Tyler Campbell
Commander Tyler Campbell, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP has over 10 years of experience as a pharmacist with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He is currently the chief pharmacist at Federal Correctional Institution Elkton in Ohio. Collateral duties include serving as a Regional HIV Clinical Pharmacist Consultant and the coordinator of the BOP Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist Consultant Program. Prior to working in the BOP, he spent five years with the Indian Health Service, including completion of a PGY-1 residency.
